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I just want to echo the 'so fast you'd be forgiven to think that I'm exaggerating'. I work with industrial arms every day, but pretty much never with them running at full acceleration up to the speed limit between the extents of reach. Even when they bump you at a speed that would be like a mild shove from a person, the unyielding force is remarkable, and if you're ever near one and surprised by a sudden 'full send' motion, it's terrifying.

>>yakz+(OP)
Terrifying is the proper term. The only time I've ever been really mad with a co-worker is when they decided to do a demo to potential customers with the newest (pre-release) firmware of a massive lathe without my very explicit permission. That could have well ended up with people seriously injured, as it was - of course - it happened to have a pretty bad bug in it but besides people getting scared it didn't cause any damage or injury.

My own process to ensure things were safe was to first run it in air without the spindle powered up, then on foam, chalk, and finally on aluminum in that order before progressing to steel.

And that saved my ass more than once.